ROBERT M. McLANE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 521

	Chapter 382.
	AN ACT to add an additional section to article thirty
	of the Code of Public General Laws, title "Crimes
	and Punishments," sob-title "Destroying Property
	Maliciously."
	SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
	of Maryland, That a section be and the same is hereby	Section added.
	added to article thirty of the Code of Public General
	Laws, sub- title " Destroying Property Maliciously," to read as follows, and be numbered section.....
	SEC..... Any person who shall enter upon the land
	or premises of any other person, whether such other
	person be the owner or lessee of said property or
	premises, and wilfully and maliciously injure any ice	Maliciously in-
	upon any pond or stream of water upon said land so	juring ice.
	as to injuriously affect the quality of the same as an
	article for sale or use, or who shall from beyond the
	property or premises of any such owner or lessee wil-
	fully and maliciously thereon cast or discharge upon
	any such ice any substance whatever which shall so
	injure the same, shall be deemed guilty of a misde-	Misdemeanor
	meanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined	— penalty.
	not less than ten dollars nor more than twenty dollars,
	or imprisoned for thirty days, in the discretion of the
	court; and the ownership in said ice may be laid in
	the indictment to be either in any of the persons who
	have at the time of the commission of said act the
	right to gather said ice for use or sale as owner or
	lessee of said land on which said pond or stream may
	be situated, or in any other person who has the legal
	right to gather the said ice for sale or use by license
	from or contract with such owner or lessee.
	Approved April 8, 1884.